You Are Awesome - Card

Let me say this is not my usual style of card, it's a little... out there. Totally bright and over the top. All of my younger nieces have birthdays in June and August it was time to start making cards that can be used for birthdays.

This will be perfect for my niece Harmony, she has a bright and bubbly personality, I know she will love it.

Featuring:

• Lawn Fawn's Teeny Tiny backgrounds 
• Technique Tuesday's Favorite Circles 
• Echo Park's Little Girl
• Stampin' Up Ink in Basic Grey
• Distress Ink in Dusty Concord
• Colorbox Chalk Ink in Lime Pastel
• Spellbinders Beaded Circles Die
• EK Success 1 3/4" Circle Punch
• Lifestyle Crafts Nested Circle Dies

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Cousins at Play

Another week means another Sketch Support layout. I've been sick so this week is coming in at the last minute, I'm proud that I got it done at all. Again this week I chose to do one side of the sketch and changed several things. This is the first page I've sewn on and it clearly shows. Oh well, I'll keep getting better and maybe one day it I'll be able to sew in a straight line. Thanks for stopping by. I hope to be well eventually and be back up to blogging regularly.

Thicker storage video

I ramble a bit and I apologize for that. Also you will notice that I 'talk' with my hands, my mom is to blame for that trait.

To recap my categories are; White, Plain, Glitter, and Printed. Colors are broken down within the categories. It's odd I'll admit but it works!

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Wind Blown

Another layout featuring my niece, hard to believe the little girl in these pictures is about to turn 14. Yikes!

I'm going through the Sketch Support Class with an online group. Maybe being with a group, that we loving refer to ourselves as "The Fizzlers", will help me actually complete this class. Chances aren't great but it's always nice to have a dream.

My layout for the first sketch, which I veered from fairly drastically.

If you are taking, or have taken, the class you will be able to see all the differences from the original sketch. It's pretty drastic but this is what worked for my photos and papers.

This was a hard layout to make, nothing wanted to come together in a way that I liked. At first I tried to use the bottom patterned paper strip as the background, the Carta Bella Cool Summer paper is so cute but it was overpowering for an entire background. Once I settled on the white cardstock it felt cold. I used my go-to method of making a frame out of another color, the pink made everything come together and not seem so sterile.

Something still wasn't coming together and I thought why not go on stamp overload. I love my stamps but I know I need to use them more, I figured this would be a good time to try and if I didn't like the results it was only plain cardstock that I would have to throw away. In all I believe I used 5 stamp sets on this one page, something I'm definitely trying again.

I also challenged myself to use some Thickers that were an impulse purchase. I had never seen these before and they were at TJMaxx for $1.49 each, why not buy them that cheap. As I put them away I was wondering how in the world would I use them, they weren't my normal chipboard or foam in easy to read fonts, these are a little different. They somehow worked for this page, at least I hope they do.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to get another haul up soon.

My Scraps and More Haul video

I hate my voice but I hope you enjoy the video. My goal is to up my YouTube time so that I might be able to do process videos.

Halloween 2012

You can tell I'm great with the clever titles, right?

This will conclude my attempt at the NSD challenges. I wish I could get more in but there just isn't time, at least with the time constraints. I still plan on trying the color challenge from the SG blog, I love the ombre look and haven't gotten around to making a layout with that look.

This particular layout goes along with Shimelle's challenge to use brads or eyelets. Brads are an easy one, I use those on almost every layout I do already. For this page I decided to dig deep within my stash, and I struck gold! Okay, I struck green

For this layout I used Doodlebugs Haunted Manor, it was the perfect colors to go with his dragon costume. I finally pulled out my Studio AE stamp set from October 2011, I'm so ashamed that it took this long to use it. Along with some scraps from Echo Park Springtime and Playground, Am I the only one with scraps that seem to multiply in night? My signature move lately is POW! glitter paper and this layout was no exception.

For the challenge portion I found some green eyelets that set of my stamping perfectly. Honestly, I was shocked that I had the right color, my eyelet stash is incredibly low. The best part was trying to find my eyelet setter, I had to leave the layout one day and resume the next when I finally found it. Ah, adventures in scrapbooking. Side bonus, I found something else I had been looking for, isn't that the way it always goes?

This will only be one of the layouts for Riley's first Halloween. It was a party held the weekend before at a friends church. Riley won a costume contest, no one could resist my cute little dragon.

You Are So Loved

I had a layout in my bookmarks at Two Peas for a while now using Echo Park's This & That Charming. With one of the challenges on Two Peas to go to your bookmarks for inspiration it was the perfect time to lift it. Lynn Ghahry took my breath away with this layout, it's such a perfect page. It would have never occurred to me to use that collection with a newborn photo but it works.

I've almost duplicated it exactly. If the scrapbook store I bought this at carried the 6x12 chipboard then I would have copied it exactly. It is the perfect way to showcase one of the newborn photos for my son's album, the colors worked with the photo perfectly.

Usually I shy away from buying the matching chipboard for a collection. When I can only think of a way to use one or two of the elements why would I buy the whole thing?

One of the pieces on the layered chipboard piece was an antique car that I knew I wouldn't use, until Lynn showed me how. She used it as a layer for one of the pieces from the 6x12 chipboard sheet in the collection, since I didn't have that I used one of the stickers from the element sticker sheet. Overall it gives the same feel because the shapes are the same, just a bit different in size. Because the sticker can bend I made sure to put foam adhesive under the portion that didn't have chipboard backing it.

There is another sticker layered with chipboard at the bottom as well. This is one of those why didn't I think of that moments, it's a simple concept really. Now I'm looking forward to figuring out how to incorporate some of the other images from the layered chipboard pieces, even if it's just as a background layer.

Linked with Two Peas in a Bucket NSD bookmark challenge.